MGMT11109 Introduction to Business

Write a Management Report providing analysis and recommendations about how horses and riders can be managed to success in a contemporary Australian riding school.You will focus on the principles, models and theories of management that you have read about in the week unit and how your riding school is planned, organised, lead and controlled you will also discuss the external environmental factors affecting your riding school and the contemporary management challenge that this presents.

There are several problems which affect Australian riding school. These problems are manageable and can be controlled by an effective leadership style. Some of the challenges facing riding school are management welfare issue, health issues, riding and training welfare issues.

Reasons for writing the report connect to problems

The intention of writing this report is to bring out challenging affection Australian riding school and to find out ways of improving student’s performances (Barrows, 2016). In this case, the solutions to the problems are considered to be the ways of motivating staffs members at any particular time.

3. Scope of the report

The aim of this report is to find solutions to the problems facing riding schools vividly. Challenges facing management at Australian riding school and its solutions (Chapman et al., 2017). The report focuses on how the school is planned, organized, lead and controlled. In addition, it also indicates motivational factors, leadership style, work related issues, external environmental pressure affecting riding school.

Outline of problems with recommendations:

Lack of proper training

Training makes employees more knowledgeable and stress-free in handling their tasks. Therefore, for the school to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of its operation, it has to ensure that it trains its staff to acquire relevant skills and expertise that will enable them to be up to the expected standards in an organization (COLES, 2016).

Poor leadership and management style

A good school should exercise gender equality for better performance. Effective staff management and development is very productive to ensuring the workplace runs efficiently and smoothly, and that productive employees are in the right positions. Well managed employees receive continuous training and evaluation (Kerzner, n.d.). Prepared to do their work and to teach students in the right way hence increasing the performance of the students. Therefore, based on good leadership style in which both management, school employees, students as well as parents to participate in the decision-making process, the school will be in the position of effectively attaining its set goals and objectives. However, poor staffing will lead to the chaotic and unorganized work environment.

Mismanagement of funds

Monetary straightforwardness is critical to lessening the danger of extortion. Every organization should train their staff on how to control cash flows in order to reduce risks and mismanagement of cash in the organization (Kerzner, n.d.). Therefore, with competent staff in financial management, the school will be in a position to offer quality services to its students.

Recommendations

Tips to prevent mismanagement of funds

Checking Bank accounts: Keep limitless tickets to ride secured a safe area and confine access to the accounts. On a month to month basis, have staff outside of the dispensing start, endorsement, and registration works that are at the senior level get unopened bank explanations and survey scratched off checks and proclamations. Therefore, the school will effectively account for its finances expense at any particular time.

Implement a free survey: Record every new record and shut records in back council minutes. In this case. Carry out adequate research on the school expenditure as per school books of accounts thus being in a position of making a reliable financial decision that will enable the school to be timely attain its set goals and objectives (Kettl, 2005). Revenue and receipting is another aspect that has to be put into consideration. In this case, use double control where more than one individual will be accepting and including receipts expansion to check and verify money commitments. Also, Formulate and authorize MasterCard consumption documentation should enhance security in the financial sector in the school.

The school management should clearly define their vision, value, and direction

Vision gives directions and explains the purpose of the organizations. Therefore, the vision of the school has to simple and easily understood for good vision encourages and inspires commitments and lastly the vision has to be realistic. Our vision is to capture an ideal product and future leading products which meet customer needs at any particular moment (McLeod, Fisher and Hoover, 2003). The organization vision and ethics are all applicable in any organization. By putting down, these visions it will enable accountants not to follow the wrong directions as well as keep their ethical morals at their fingertips. They should always practice integrity, honesty, objectivity, independence, due care, and competency thus enabling the organization to acquire a competitive advantage over its competitors.

 Enhance professionalism

The education sector is also affected because of lack of professionalism amongst the employees in the education sector. Therefore, the management should address priorities to reduce the increased strike at the institution. Employees, in this case, should be well trained on how to provide quality services that will meet clients demand at any particular time (McLeod, Fisher and Hoover, 2003). Therefore, the management of the organization should ensure that its employees uphold the professional code of conduct while carrying out their daily operations thus enabling the organization to meet its set goals and objectives effectively and efficiently.

Lack of adequate motivation is also another factor that has been considered to lower the quality of operation in an organization. Therefore, it is recommended that the management of the organization should ensure that it motivate its employees through the provision of good working conditions, proper rewards as well as recognition of good performance(Roethlisberger and Dickson, 2003). As a result, they will feel motivated, and they will put in more effort that will enable the organization to enhance efficiency in its operations.

Provide proper training

Employee training in an organization is another aspect that should be given much consideration by the management of the organization. Training will ensure that employees attain required skills and expertise that will enable them to offer quality services that will enable an organization to attain a competitive advantage over its competitors operating in the same industry (Roethlisberger and Dickson, 2003). Thus enabling the organization to have competent staff who will enable it to attain a completive advantage over its competitors.

Construct good relationship inside and outside the school

The channels of communication should be made open from top to bottom and vice versa (ministry of education, principal) thus ensuring that there is smooth flow of information from one section or department to another thus enabling the organization to be well informed in relation to any decision that has to be made in relation to its primary objectives (Schall and Haley, 1991). Therefore, with effective communication in an organization, the management will be in the position of understanding consumer demand thus being able to offer them a reliable solution that will meet their expectation.

4.0 plan, organize, lead and control the school

In this case, the process entails the five managerial roles in which the leader is expected to plan for the future operations of the school, organize, direct, coordinate as well as leading the school towards its set goals and objectives. Therefore, a leader, in this case, is expected to be an individual with required skills and expertise to be able to influence his or her followers to enable the school to offer quality services that will meet client’s expectation. A leader, therefore, should be an individual who acts as a role model in attaining the set goals and objectives within the organization (Kimchi, Behrmann, & Olson, 2003) That is, the above aspects have to be put into consideration to ensure that the school is in position to offer the services as per the set standards by the responsible ministry in the country.  

4.1. Planning, problems, and recommendations

Planning gives management direction in order to meet the set target. Managers must set rules and guidance that gives the institution directions. The school has visions and missions to accomplish. The goals set for school to guide students and staff to carry their tasks without follow ups (Schall and Haley, 2011). Therefore, planning is considered a key element that will enable the institute to effectively and efficiently achieve its set goals and objectives. It is recommended that a school must have organized strategic plans. The plans will help in communicating with students and general management.

4.2. Leadership issues and recommendations

Leadership issues and organizational issues is a core value highlighted in the report. The report puts efforts on two concepts of Leadership Transactional and transformational style (Transactional leadership, 2012). A leader is considered to be someone who has the ability to inspire, influence as well as offer guiding to his or her followers in attaining the set goals and objectives. Transactional, as well as transformative leadership styles, are normally used to enhance the effectiveness of operation in the organization (Gaines, 2007). Therefore, a combination of transactional and transformational strategies can be helpful in ensuring the success of the school. This leadership style is exclusive though transactional leadership is seen to be more important for promoting better results for students. Most leaders promote their students indirectly by assisting and encouraging the students.

The school management has a key role in setting direction, create a positive learning environment and motivate workers such teachers and subordinates to offer quality service to their clients. The commitment required boosting improvement and encouraging success in a challenging environment thus enhancing the effectiveness of operation in the Institute.

Transactional leadership rewards and punishment are used as a way of motivating their followers, they react to problems and solves them when they arise while transformational leadership is a style where user’s personality and interest to influence and challenge their followers is given an opportunity (Schermerhorn and Bachrach, n.d.). In this case, the Transactional leader is featured to be an individual who concentrates on a personal interest of his or her follower who is featured to be searching for rewards, unlike the transformational leaders who concentrates on group interest as well as organizational ideas for success. Transactional leaders perform their duties in an already existing managerial culture; it suits a military structure while transformational leaders put more stress on creating new ideas hence transforms organizational culture (Gaines, 2015). Therefore, the combination of the two aspects will enable the organization to attain the set goals effectively.

The transactional style of leadership is seen as inadequate, but it’s a great idea in developing utmost leadership perspective, create a basis for more mature coordination, communication, and inspiration ,measures should be taken by all leaders not be over exaggerate it because it will lead to corrupted environment. Transformational leadership may transform an organization when people are not yet ready to change because they are satisfied as they are then such as a may be disappointed.

Recommendations

Teamwork is a key product to success. Institutions encourage teamwork to enable it to attain its set objectives for it is clear that lack of teamwork in an organization indicates that there is no productivity and employee will be demoralized. Leaders should motivate and encourage their employees to work together in order to meet their objectives and also organizational goals. Workers must interact with each other so that they learn more and the information on how the organization is working (Salacuse, 2006). They say learning is a continues process we should never stop learning .An organization with a fair communication channel from junior subordinated to senior managers creates a better workplace because workers are free to express their grievances, by doing these the company avoids strikes and fewer complaints at the workplace. More so, peace and unity will be there.

5. External environmental factors

The external environmental are factors outside the institution. These factors hinder the performance of the school and include animal welfare, animal right laws, standards and stakeholders and other external factors.

5.1. Animal welfare

The Animal Welfare, in this case, is considered to the efforts made by the management of the school in ensuring that the animals are in good health condition. That is, they have to be treated, fed and be in the protection of terms like animal upkeep, as well as animal husbandry and humane treatment. Therefore, these welfares generalize the taking good care of the general health of animals. Therefore, with this aspects, it is clear that the school is keen in taking care of horses with proper attention.

5.2. Animal right

The animal has right to be free against any inhuman deeds and exploitations. Despite animal having rights that protect them the rights are different from human rights. The school respects their rights. The animals are feed daily. They are given water as their daily during without any discrimination. The animals have right to freedom to graze and move around the school compound. Furthermore, they have proper shelter.

5.5. Stakeholders and other external factors

6. a)   Advanced technology is a challenge

  Technology is spontaneously advancing at a high rate worldwide, and this creates a new field in the way we carry out co-curricular activities in the schools. There is a lot of advance upgraded activity. The use of technology has changed how we view the appearance of the school and other social places. There is tight competition because the new advanced equipment is replacing the current old ones. The management does not have enough funds to divert and embrace this new technology.  As a result, some students are changing their school, and this is affecting the entire school both the management as well as the students.

1. b)  Lack of competition

The school has no power and vision to compete with other riding schools. Competitions motivate the student to work hard. By so, they will have the courage to face another school, and this makes their brain active .Also, competition makes pupils love and enjoy being around the school compound and this gives them more time to train.

The theory of competing for value framework generally encourages effective performance in an organization. The theory has been of great significant in organizing and understanding for both institution and organization. The reason why this theory is useful is that its talks about competition and innovation other supporting theories include are effective of the organization, leadership competencies, organizational beliefs and culture, stages of development, leadership roles, financial policies, information processing and brain functioning.

The school should implement long-term development. Success always comes to those who work hard to achieve their goals. The long-term development can either be to construct a playground for all the students to compete every day before leaving the school compound or create time for competition to invite other schools to join their students in completion and rewarded the winner.

6.2. Innovation

 The management encourages creativity to implement new ideas among the students. Creation of new ideas boosts and gives moral support to all the students to identify and use their talents well. The theory of motivation and goal setting by Edwin A. Locke this theory sets out the importance of setting goals that guide that guide us on how to perform our tasks. It educates students about the importance of setting goals. Setting specific goals and challenging goals leads to great tasks and high performance.

  The significant features of goal setting theory; the readiness to work is a motivating factor. Challenging goals are considered to be a greater motivator than simple tasks. The school should set specific and clear goals to guide the management in running the institution thus increasing the level of motivation at the school. Subordinates, therefore, should commit to the set goals. The advantage of setting goals that increase incentives to complete tasks delegated to staffs leads to better performance due to motivations as everyone will be working to attain the set standard in order to receive the reward thus contributing to increased performance.                               

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